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Graduate students create committee to support mental health

The University of Minnesota’s Council of Graduate Students created a mental health committee this semester in an effort to de-stigmatize graduate student mental health. The five-member committee aims ... read more

What colleges must do to promote mental health for graduate students

As researchers who study mental health and mentor graduate students, we believe critical changes need to be made at universities to better support students like Sara. Some of these changes can be made ... read more

Graduate students take charge on mental health care

Since then, with support from the department, the peer network has promoted mental health awareness and offered a first port of call to MCB Ph.D. students as they navigate the pressures of graduate sc... read more

BestColleges and Mental Health Experts Unite to Discuss Mental Illness Among College Students

BestColleges and a panel of experts explore the challenges students with mental health ... to enable learners who struggle with mental health issues to excel at the same level as their peers and gradu... read more

Campus Boosts Support for Graduate Student Mental Health

It can all take a toll. To help support the mental health and well-being of UC San Diego’s growing graduate student population, the campus is bolstering the resources offered through Counseling and Ps... read more

Grad students call for better mental health services

Concerns about the lack of adequate mental health resources for graduate students surfaced again during a rally held Thursday by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization when protestors spoke ... read more

Grad student files discrimination suit against George Fox University

When Lynn Jones applied to graduate school at George Fox University to get a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling, she wrote an essay about her personal spiral into psychosis and her s... read more

Mental health is important for success in higher education, yet many graduate students struggle with the maintenance of their well-being. An eye-opening 2018 study shows that graduate students are six ... read more

Grappling with graduate student mental health and suicide

One recent study found that 7.3% of graduate students had suicidal thoughts. But there are practices that advisers, departments, and schools can put in place to support their students’ mental health. ... read more

Could I really be the only one struggling? A graduate student opens up about mental health

Stanford graduate student Francis Aguisanda shares his struggles with mental illness in this piece, which he wrote to let others know they are not alone. Two weeks ago, researchers at Harvard publishe... read more

Highlighting Mental Health in Grad Students

We’re just starting to delve deeper into how depression, anxiety and other mental health problems are impacting college students and how to provide the necessary treatment services and resources for p... read more